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The Prince George RCMP showed off their musical side Friday, with the release of a song promoting safe winter driving. The local detachment jumped into the social media #PoliceRapBattle fray, started by the RCMP in Kindersley, Sask.

The job vacancy rate in the Cariboo economic region stood at 3.2 per cent for the second quarter of the year, according to Statistics Canada numbers issued Friday. For the province as a whole, it was 3.3 per cent and nationally, it was 2.8 per cent.

A B.C. Supreme Court Justice has dismissed a defamation suit brought by a former Quesnel surgeon against the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. over a series of stories about his performance. In a decision issued Wednesday , Justice Elaine Adair found Dr.

The annual World HIV/AIDS Awareness Week is celebrated the week before World AIDS Day, Dec. 1, which launches Aboriginal AIDS Awareness Week in Canada.

School District 57 is calling on the province to prepare a poverty reduction plan in the wake of an annual report showing one in five B.C. children lives in a low-income family.

Sixteen years ago, James Moore was a University of Northern B.C. student with political aspirations. Today, he is a retired Conservative MP who held several cabinet posts in the Stephen Harper government.

When James Moore announced in June he would not be seeking another term, the Conservative industry minister followed a line of cabinet ministers – John Baird, Peter MacKay, Shelly Glover – backing away from public life.

Applications are now being accepted for a new grant program aimed at boosting winter and summer events.

This year at the Festival of Trees there is a full-sized tree a youth group added to the collection at the Civic Centre. The group is the College Heights Secondary School Interact Club, sponsored by teacher Cindy Smith and the Yellowhead Rotary Club.

The B.C. Motor Vehicle Sales Association has issued a warning to be aware of a scam involving "cloned" vehicles.